Guitar Lessons West Hampstead NW6 With Bruce Music

In this new blog series, each post looks at a different part of London and tells you about our Guitar Lessons in that area. While we’re at it, we look at the musical history and residents of the area. We’re working our way through North West London at the moment, and you can find our other recently covered NW London areas by following these links below:

Today, it’s Guitar Lessons West Hampstead NW6. A stretch of North West London, with West End Lane, sandwiched parallel between Finchley Road and Kilburn High Road, at the centre, West Hampstead is home of many great musical stories and residents past and present.

Music And West Hampstead

Decca: The Birth Of Rock ‘N’ Roll

Decca Records, 165 Broadhurst Gardens. 1920-1980

Now a rehearsal space for The English National Opera, 165 Broadhurst Gardens spent 80 years as the home of Decca Records. Their studio here is where ‘King of Skiffle’ Lonnie Donegan recorded the album “Rock Island Line”

The Beatles’ Famous Decca Audition

On 1 January 1962, The Beatles auditioned for Decca Records and were rejected. This is widely regarded as the biggest mistake in the history of the Music Industry. Here’s a well-updated Wikipedia page on the subject, and here is the remastered original audition tape:

The Railway Pub & The Klooks Kleek

The building next to the old Decca building was and still is The Railway pub, now best known as somewhere for football fans to congregate before heading up the Jubilee line to Wembley. The Railway pub has a fantastic musical legacy, as does the now closed Klooks Kleek club above, which hosted Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton (who famously had a guitar stolen from there one night!)

Famous Musical Residents

Celebrated musical residents past and present include:

Joan Armatrading

Slash

Chaka Khan

Dusty Springfield

Guitar Lessons West Hampstead

Four of our brilliant, friendly London Guitar Teachers are available to visit you for Guitar Lessons In West Hampstead, NW6. This includes the nearby areas too – Kilburn, Finchley Road, Hampstead, Swiss Cottage and St John’s Wood. We can travel to your home, workplace, or other chosen location, at a time to suit you – whether weekdays or weekends, daytimes or evenings. These four Guitar teachers are Daniel, Simone, Neli and Alex.

Our Guitar teachers are professional, experienced, and friendly. At Bruce Music our progressive Guitar teaching methods and our excellent customer service set us apart. To book, enquire, or discuss anything at all about your Guitar Lessons – please get in touch now.